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Welcome to Ferris Guitar
Welcome to the Ferris Guitar Information Resource Page.
On the left there are GLOSSARIES for MUSICAL TERMS, GUITAR PARTS, as well as CHORDS.
There is also link for a GUITAR TUNER, CIRCLE OF FIFTHS, and the HISTORY OF THE GUITAR.
Various Guitar links can be found at GUITAR REFERENCE.
On the right, you can visit other sites brought to you by FerrisGuitar.com
Enjoy!
NEWS: An article on Michael Ferris's life as a guitarist has been published in the May issue of Classical Guitar Magazine.
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Christopher Parkening is celebrated as one of the world’s preeminent virtuosos of the classical guitar. For more than a quarter century, his concerts and recordings have received the highest worldwide acclaim. The Washington Post cited his stature as “the leading guitar virtuoso of our day, combining profound musical insight with complete technical mastery of his instrument.” Parkening is recognized as heir to the legacy of the great Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia, who proclaimed that “Christopher Parkening is a great artist – he is one of the most brilliant guitarists in the world.” The Los Angeles Times has noted: “Parkening is considered America’s reigning classical guitarist, carrying the torch of his mentor, the late Andrés Segovia.”
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The History of the Guitar
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Interestingly enough, no one really knows for sure where the guitar came from. Only hypotheses can be made. I hope that this short piece of writing will help solve a bit of this mystery. If anyone claims to KNOW exactly where the guitar came from, they are not telling the truth or have been misinformed.
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GRAMMY award winner in 2005 for his CD AIRE LATINO, in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music.
Classical guitarist David Russell is world renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. In recognition of his great talent and his international career, he was named a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997.
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Shiri Coneh, a young guitarist of great distinction and promise. She possesses a fluid technique and great musicality and intelligence…
She has blossomed into a first rate performing artist: serious, professional in every way and a delightful presence on stage." (Prof. Eliot Fisk).
Shiri Coneh was born in Israel into a musical family...
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Ricardo Jesus Gallen Garcia was born in Linares (Spain) in 1972. He started to learn the guitar at the age of four and made his debut with his father Manuel Gallen when he was only five. At ten he entered the Conservatorio de Musica de Linares where he received his first official music lessons with the founder (and by then director) of the Conservatorio, composer Tomas Villajos Soler. He continued his studies in the conservatoires of Ja?n, C?rdoba, Madrid o Granada, under the guidance of Victor Valls, Miguel Barbera, Demetrio Ballesteros and Carmelo Martínez.
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Joaquin Rodrigo 1901 - 1999
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This composer, the most important Spanish composer of our time, was born on November 22nd, 1901. November 22nd is the feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. This is a composer that seems to have done the impossible, for he was not only incredibly gifted, but also blind. He lost his sight at the age of three on account of diphtheria. It is said that when one loses the ability to see, a keen development of the senses takes place, and among them the sense of hearing. This composer definitely shows cogent evidence of this, for his works were great. Among them, his masterpiece, the Concerto de Aranjuez, is probably known by even the most ignorant to classical music. Its second movement, Andante, has not only been used in many documentary films on Spain, but also in a great deal of films.
When Rodrigo was 8 years old, he started to learn violin and piano. At the age of 17, he attended the Valencia Conservatory and wrote his first works in 1923. The question is, how was he able to compose being blind? Answer ? he first wrote in Braille, thereby dictating the finished work to a scribe. In 1927, following the example of many Spanish composers of the time, he moved to Paris to study under Dukas for five years at the Ècole Normale de Musique. He and his works were well known at this time and so was encouraged by other composers such as Ravel, Falla and Stravisnsky to continue making such great progress. It was during this time period when he made the acquaintance of the Turkish pianist Vicotria Kamhi, a significant woman in his life, for she became his wife in 1933.
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Marco Tamayo, classical guitarist with Austrian Citizenship, was born in La Havana, Cuba, were he started to play guitar at the age of three under his father tuition. He studied with Antonio Alberto Rodr?guez and Leo Brouwer, Harold Gramatges, and later in Europe at the University of Music in Munich (Germany, class of J. Clerch), and at the Mozarteum University of Arts in Salzburg were he studied with Eliot Fisk (guitar), Rainner Schmid (violinist), and Anthony Spiri (cembalist), Keneth Gilbert (cembalist), among others. His first concerts took place at the very early age of six, when the national TV chanels of Cuba presented him as a prodigy young talent of the guitar. At the age of ten, Tamayo was touring the former DDR and Bulgaria, performing also with his brother. Winner of major International Guitar Competitions like the Michele Pittaluga Int. Guitar Competition, Cittá de Alessandria, in 1999 and the Andrés Segovia Int. Guitar Competition in Granda, Spain, Marco Tamayo performed concerts together with the Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg, the Philarmonic of Torino under the batton of Paolo Ferrara, the Chamber Orchestra of Aix en Provence (France), under the batton of Philip Bender, the Philarmonic of Tampere (Finland), the Philarmonic of La Habana under the Batton of Leo Brouwer, the TransArt Orchestra of Salzburg conducted by Kurt Redel and performing in Aix en Provence, France, and many others.
His concert activities shares with teaching and leading Masterclasses in different Guitar Festivals around the Globe, Greece, Spain, Germany, M?xico, Poland, France, Hungary, and in Universities like the Seoul University of Arts in South Korea. He lives in Salzburg since 1995 and teaches at the University of Arts and Music ?Mozarteum? since the year 2000, and his class include a large number of winners of Major International Guitar Competitions. Marco Tamayo also teaches since September 2005 at the Landeskonservatorium in Klagenfurt, Austria, where he is now Professor. Tamayo's oficial debut took place at the Chopin-Pleyel hall in Paris, in 1999. In March 2000 he embarked on his first Italian concert tour, giving ten concerts in the region of Piedmont, in Milan, Turin, Alessandria, Piacenza, and elsewhere. After the tour, the national italian newspapers 'La Stampa' called him: Il Re della Chitarra. (The King of the guitar)
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Lily Afshar is like a breath of fresh air in the world of classical guitar. Her solo, chamber, and concerto appearances combined with her adventurous recordings have earned her the status of ?one of the world?s foremost classical guitarists? according to Public Radio International. The Washington Post described her onstage performances as ?remarkable, impeccable.? But perhaps equally as important is her reputation for expanding the contemporary classical guitar repertoire. Lily?s collaborations with international composers have resulted in premieres of new works by Reza Vali, Garry Eister, Gerard Drozd, Loris Chobanian, Arne Mellnas, Kamran Ince, Barbara Kolb, Marilyn Ziffrin, David Kechley, and Salvador Brotons.
Her exciting concert programs continue to earn her an active schedule of solo, chamber and concerto appearances in the US and around the world. Recent highlights include concerts in the US, England, Ireland, Canada, France, Iran, Jordan, Denmark, Italy, Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and South America. She has performed at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, Banff School of Fine Arts, the Menton Music Festival in the South of France, and the American Academy in Rome.
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Eliot Fisk, a truely great guitarist
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A creative innovator linked to the great romantic tradition of the past, guitarist Eliot Fisk is one of the most exciting and unique artists before the public today. Known world wide for his adventurous repertoire and willingness to take art music into unusual venues (including schools, senior centers and even prisons!) he belongs, as his great mentor Andrés Segovia once wrote, “at the top line of our artistic world.”
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Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, refined artistic temperament and outstanding technique, Maria Isabel Siewers has performed in many of the greatest halls, including the Wigmore Hall (London), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Martinu Hall (Prague), Carnegie Hall (New York) and the Th?atre des Champs Elys?es (Paris), and has played in many important music festivals. She has regularly toured, taught and adjudicated in international competitions throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. She has occupied several teaching posts in Argentina and, since 1989, she has been head of a guitar department in the Arts University Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
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